Hi everybody. It is the 20th of May 2021. My name is Luke Thomas and this is episode 76 of my live chat. Hope you're doing well. I am from Showtime and CBS Sports. I'm also one half of the hosting duo of Morning Combat on which this chat appears on that channel. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining me. I greatly appreciate it. Let's do this here very quickly.

If we can, like this, you guys know the drill right thumbs up on the video hit subscribe if you're new here welcome if you are regular welcome whatever whatever reason brings you here today. I am glad you are here. What will we get to today?

I'm sure whatever is latest and greatest in the news of combat sports and anything else that's kind of on your mind. All right. So let's by the way, I'm only one minute late because we if you look at the schedule, we're set to start at 305 start at 306.

So not too bad. Okay. With that out of the way, let's get this party started. Shall we?

All right. If I look a little haggard, it's because I am. I was out in the front yard. Boy, this kid is here. Huh?

If anybody who lives in the East Coast or around the area where what are they called, brood X? They've been underground for 17 years and now they're back.

And you can see little holes all in my front yard. I think I have a picture. I took of one of them of the shells. Yeah, here it is. There's two shells here. There's my old phone, but if you guys can see that see that?

These are the shells of cicadas. So there's nothing in them. This is what they shed almost like a, I mean, obviously they're very different creatures, but something relatively akin to a skin or excuse me, a snake shitting at the skin.

And yeah, they're everywhere. We're not not quite everywhere yet, but you're beginning to see them. I look like shit because I was trying to squeeze in.

A little fitness time because I'm old and washed and pathetic. So you can see I'm a little sweaty. Sorry. I died in one really cares. All right.

Again, I have these because I like them. You're certainly no obligation to have them. Nordartists. I recommend them. I just like them. Let's see if I can open this without tearing off the plastic.

Take that for, huh? You can deadlift almost a thousand plus pounds, but 501 kilos, but I can tear off the lid of a sports drink. Eat shit.

All right. Let's get this party started. Yeah, questions. Okay.

Okay. If you were in Nate Diaz's corner, what would be your game plan to beat? Let me turn this off too. Sorry.

If you were in Nate Diaz's corner, what would be your game plan to beat Leon Edwards? I don't see how he beats him without pressure.

I think pressure is going to be absolutely key. And pressure doesn't mean blindly walking forward.

But it does mean if Leon Edwards is able to effectively blitz, angle off, stick and move, maintain distance. If Nate is following versus cutting, it's going to be a real problem for him.

I think he's got to keep the fight. Certainly within his punching range. I think you guys stay out of kicking range to the extent possible.

And I think you got to really, it just really have to put Edwards on the back foot because Edwards is not going to be like the pure boxer that Nate is.

And he's certainly not going to be the ground technician that Nate is. I think that's pretty clear, but he doesn't really have to be.

I've gone over this a lot. Edwards has a very interesting game. To me, it's a little on the boarding side, if I could be honest, but I can't really, I'm not mad at it because

he's the master of positions, but really getting to them halfway. We've gone over some million times, whether that's 50, 50 standing, but he's the one doing the pressing into the fence.

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